Bird is the word

Gardens and birds go naturally together… but the birds don’t need to be of the feathered variety.
- byBetter Homes and Gardens

10 Jan
2017

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These architecturally stunning garden blooms have a bird-like presence to them – the exotic heliconia, and the South African strelitzia, known as ‘bird of paradise’. While strelitzias display their plumes best when grown in a full-sun spot in sandy soils, heliconias take spectacular flight in moist and sunny conditions devoid of frosts. Both plants are related to the banana. Heliconias are sometimes referred to as ‘lobster claws’.